[nzlug] open source in NZ schools

[Jim Cheetham]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:21:59PM +1300, Andrew Farago wrote:
> Currently most of my time I am using an iBookG4 with MacOS 10.4.8. It  
> is based on the NetBSD.

Actually, Darwin's lineage is FreeBSD, not NetBSD. Eric Levenez'
excellent timeline site may show you something interesting!
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
Mach 3 was the core for the first OS X, in May 1999, and then FreeBSD
3.1 was folded in. OS X 10.0 fed into both Darwin and OS X Server (both
NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP heritage) in 2001. FreeBSD 4.4 and 4.5 folded in again
in mid 2002, FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.1 into OS X 10.3, and FreeBSD 5.2.1 into
OS X 10.4 in 2004.


> The Apple spent a terrific amount of money and time to make the all  
> thing working and it is still not 100% maybe 85% or less.

They also paid for all your access to codecs and patented software; you
paid for this by purchasing their software. At the same time you also
collected their DRM solutions :-) 

-jim